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PART III – My Return to the United States 159 students and their teachers. The Ahmadiyya Jam ā ‘ah was growing faster across the globe than the J ā mi‘ah school could keep up with, but this was a testimony to the Truth of the Promised Messiah as. Many of the foreign students did not finish the entire curriculum, but they were dispatched as foreign missionaries to their respective homelands. The Second Khal ī fah ra acknowledged this in my case and stated that, at my age, I would require more than 8 years to master the Arabic language, let alone the 8 years to complete the standard J ā mi‘ah missionary program. The process at that time was that once a student was ready for their missionary work, they were determined to be either domestic or foreign missionaries. Domestic missionaries reported to the Sadr Anjuman and foreign missionaries reported to the Wak ī l-e-Tabsh ī r of the Tehr ī k-e-Jad ī d Office. I was the latter and my salary of 50 rupees per month was paid out of the Tehr ī k-e-Jad ī d Office. In fact, none of the foreign missionaries during my enrollment in J ā mi‘ah completed the full J ā mi‘ah program, including Kunze, who was a German already enrolled, but left at the same time I did. There are several examples of outstanding missionaries who similarly did not complete the formal J ā mi‘ah course such as Bash ī r Orchard of Glasgow. These missionaries were not successful because of their enrollment in J ā mi‘ah, but because of their devotion to Khil ā fat-e- Ahmadiyyah. Attachment to Khil ā fah is the “rope of Allah” that leads a missionary to success over any other facility be it wealth, intelligence or oratory skill. On the other hand, several of the Jam ā ‘ah’s renowned scholars who were established with advanced degrees and enormous wealth had detached themselves from the Second Khal ī fah ra and formed the Lahori sect. Their lack of